Channel 52 approvals expected this month
CTS OR TTV NEWS: Lawmakers asked why the NCC had approved some applications, but others were still pending, despite having been submitted at about the same time
By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
TTV News could be broadcasting on channel 52 soon, with a review of applications from 15 cable operators to be completed by the end of this month, National Communications Commission (NCC) Chairman Chen Yaw-shyang (陳耀祥) said yesterday.
The commission on March 31 approved applications from Homeplus Digital and three other cable operators to broadcast CTS News and Info on channel 52.
CTS News and Info has since April 19 been available to 1.25 million subscribers over 15 cable systems across Taiwan, with 12 systems owned by Homeplus Digital and the other three operators.
Anthem, constitution changes proposed
CLEAR NATIONAL IDENTITY: DPP lawmakers told a public hearing that major advances would be made in the next legislative session regarding constitutional amendments
By Chen Yu-fu
and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
At a public hearing at the legislature yesterday on “normalizing” the nation, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators proposed changing the national anthem and the Constitution.
DPP lawmakers who hosted the hearing all belonged to the supposedly disbanded faction headed by Legislative Speaker You Si-kun.
DPP Legislator Chen Ou-po (陳歐珀) said that major progress would be made on constitutional amendments in the next legislative session, adding that he had already held numerous conferences on the amendments in Yilan County.
Lawmakers on Monday said that plans to move the legislature to Taichung were still being considered, but experts have raised concerns about the logistics.
Such a move has been discussed since at least 2004. In 2012, Minister of Transportation and Communications Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) who was a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator at the time called for Taichung to be made the nation’s second capital.
Lin said that moving the Legislative Yuan would better balance national development and allow the land occupied by the legislature in Taipei to return to being a school, its original purpose.
Relocating a nation’s capital is